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VS744 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 677 posts, RR: 1
Posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 857 times:

Has a wing ever snapped in flight? I noticed that during heavy turbulance, the wing moves a lot, and I know this is tested and designed to flex, but has a wing ever snapped, either in its entirety, or just the end part?

As for engines - has an a/c ever lost an engine in flight because of turbulance?

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Petertenthije From Netherlands, joined Jul 2001, 3239 posts, RR: 13
Reply 1, posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 810 times:

An El-Al 747 cargo plane lost a engine prior to the Bijmer-crash in Amsterdam (1992 or something). I don't know if it had to do with turbulence, I believe not.

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Trident3 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 1013 posts, RR: 3
Reply 2, posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 799 times:

wasn't that due to fatigue/corosion in the engine mounting pins?

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Paulc From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 1490 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 793 times:

Early Lockheed Electra's suffered from wing loss during flight as a result of resonance from the engines etc.

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VS744 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 677 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 786 times:

so there are no reported cases of it happening recently?

Petertenthije From Netherlands, joined Jul 2001, 3239 posts, RR: 13
Reply 5, posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 785 times:

You're right Trident3. I got this from http://www.aviation-safety.net

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The design and certification of the B747 pylon was found to be inadequate to provide the required level of safety. Furthermore the system to ensure structural integrity by inspection failed. This ultimately caused - probably initiated by fatigue in the inboard midspar fuse-pin - the no.3 pylon and engine to separate from the wing in such a way that the no.4 pylon and engine were torn off, part of the leading edge of the wing was damaged and the use of several systems was lost or limited. This subsequently left the flight crew with very limited control of the airplane. Because of the marginal controllability a safe landing became highly improbable, if not virtually impossible."

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Zbeeblebrox74 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 775 times:

BOAC Flt 911, March 5th, 1966. Sideswiped inflight by 7.5G mountain wave nr Mt Fuji, Japan. Right wing snapped in half + all four engines torn off.

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Rick From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 129 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 763 times:

I used to fly on Delta's DC-8's back in the mid 70's a lot when I was a kid, and I used to love sitting over/behind the wing, because the wings on those planes would really move up and down a lot. The engines roared and made a ton of noise which I liked as well.

CO 757 200 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 8, posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 3 days ago) and read 675 times:

I know the 737 1 and 200 series engines are designed to where they will seperate under certain circumstances, but whether they'll come off automatically or intentially I'm not sure.

Bacardi182 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1088 posts, RR: 1
Reply 9, posted (11 years 8 months 1 week 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 642 times:

I once read on the NTSB web site about a JAL 747 that lost an engine in turbulance and had to land in alaska.

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